A.M. Vitals: Biotech Funding Gets Harder to Find

Biotech Funding Gets Harder to Find: (WSJ) In recent years, venture financing for biotech – once an investment darling – has been in decline, due to the tough economic environment and poor returns from stock offerings.

Regulators Seek to Cool Hospital-Deal Fever:(WSJ) Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz says some mergers can lock up local markets, leading to higher prices for patients and insurance companies with few other places to turn.

Best Precautions Cannot Be Fail-Safe: (Telegraph) Health guidelines set up by the Premier League in 2006 helped ensure that soccer player Fabrice Muamba – who suffered cardiac arrest during an FA Cup match over the weekend – received instant, high-level medical attention in efforts to save his life.

Insurers Set Plans in Case Mandate Is Quashed: (WSJ) Their worst-case scenario: The court knocks out the law’s mandate that most Americans carry insurance or pay a fee but leaves in place requirements that insurers sell policies to all applicants.